Imagenes de Egipto: mayo 2017

The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes, aka Paroy

The Theban Tomb 295 of

Djehutymes,
aka

Paroy

They include one of the rare funerary scenes of the tomb, of which only a few fragments still exist. We find a rather intriguing representation of two priests covered in a very tight girdle (shroud, or skin), with red horizontal stripes, except for the head. One is seated, the other stretched out on a kind of low bed, the legs of which bent towards the interior. This is a representation concerning the sem-priest during the Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in two states, "sleeping" and "awake". According to Budge, the sem-priest is first "asleep", a state during which he sees his "father" (i.e. the deceased) in "all his manifestations". Then he awakens and tells of his visions. It is suggested lately that the sem-priest would act as the first Egyptian magician and that the whole of the scene would correspond - in a shaman-like manner - to a sort of trance during a pseudo sleep. This ritual could have a tie with the mysterious Tekenu. A similar scene is in the ritual for opening the mouth section in the tomb of Rekhmire TT 100.

Errected mummies belong to other scenes of the ritual

The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes,

aka Paroy

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The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes, aka Paroy

The Theban Tomb 295 of

Djehutymes,
aka

Paroy

The tomb's owner and his wife Renenutet sit facing left, the wife embracing him in the same pose as seen in the scene above. Djehutymes reaches towards his children with his right hand to receive their offering, while holding in his left band a bouquet, strangely represented behind his right arm. Facing the couple are two children, a son followed by a daughter. Between them and their parents is a lattice-work stand on the top of which is a large bowl filled with lotus buds, with a head of lettuce placed on the top of this pile. Text related to the son: "His son, whom he loves, the sem-priest in the Place of Embalmment, the scribe, the divine seal-bearer, Huy. He says: May your heart be content with the garland; may you go in front of your Ka, the garland of your lord, [Amun]; may he praise you"; the name of the hated god Amun was erased by the atonists.

The area behind the two children is divided into two horizontal sub-registers showing male offering-bearers. Three individuals wearing a black wig are seen in the upper register. In the lower register are three pairs of men with shaved heads.

The Theban Tomb 295 of Djehutymes,

aka Paroy

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